108 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT. 



ORIGANUM. 



Sibthorp only specifies two shrubby species, 

 viz. Tournefortii and Dictamnus. The latter is the 

 AiKTafj.vo? of Dioscorides, but it is probable that 

 they were both confounded with the other kinds 

 of Origanum, which appear to have had the same 

 name in ancient times as at present, viz. 'O/j/yaz/o^, 

 corrupted in modern Greek to piyavi. 



Origanum majorana, a common species in Italy, 

 seems to have been distinguished by the name 

 Amaracits by the Romans, and ^d^vyov by the 

 Greeks. See " Roman Husbandry," p. 272, where 

 by mistake the word lampsana is substituted for 

 sampsucum. 



TEUCRIUM. 



Ten shrubby species are enumerated by Sibthorp, 

 none of which are included in Manetti's list. 



Teucrium flavum has been supposed to be alluded 

 to by Dioscorides under the name of TevKplov, 

 which, he says, is also called XafiaiBpvs, as this 

 plant goes by the name of \ajJLai8pva at the pre- 

 sent day. 



Teucrium poliiim is supposed to be the Ylo\iov 

 of Dioscorides 11 , and the Polium of Pliny q , who 

 describes one kind from the mountains as a shrub 

 a cubit high, white, having a head of flowers 

 on the top of a corymb like grey hair, with a 

 heavy but not disagreeable smell ; and the other 

 larger, with not so powerful an odour, and inferior 



iii- 111. " iii. 124. '< xxi. 21. 



